364 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



Meriden be passed over^ during the residence of the houiads 

 in that kennel, for the purpose of hunting those Woodlands. 

 This took place twice a year, and brilliant sport was the 

 result. 



Many who read this will remember the Long-meadow, 

 Princethorpe, the Tile-hill, the Combe, and the Bratmston 

 foxes, and the fine wild sporting countries they so often led 

 them over ! Nor can the music of Will Barrow, with his 

 cap in his hand, which rang through those noble w'oods, 

 whilst his pack were bristling to their game, be ever forgotten 

 by those who were so fortunate as to hear it. 1 



Modern Warwickshire, however, as we may term it, 

 is not destitute of Woodlands, so essential to all hunting 

 countries. Independently of Weston Park, Snitterfield 

 Bushes, the immense woods of the Marquis of Hertford, 

 and Austey Wood, the property of that firm friend to fox- 

 hunting. Sir E. Smythe, of Shropshire, Spernal Park and 

 Alveston Pastures are always well.- stocked with foxes, and 

 afford excellent cub-hunting. The Marquis of Hertford 

 is no fox-hunter, but his good taste has induced him not to 

 be inimical to the sport, and his woods atRagley, the most 

 extensive in the county, are good nurseries for foxes. — 

 Neither should the kindness of his neighbour. Sir Charles 

 Throckmorton, be forgotten. 



We hear and read of runs twenty miles from point to 

 point, but they are of rare occurrence. In Mr. Corbet's 

 time a fox broke from Wolford- wood, and taking a line never 



1 All noAV called the Dancliiircli country tlien belonged to the 

 Warwickshire Hunt, including among many others, the woods of 

 Lords Craven and Denbigh, and that fine furze-cover called Debdale, 

 the property of that stanch old Sportsman, Sir Theophilus Biddulph , 

 of Birdingbury, the whole of which was given up to Lord Anson, on 

 Lord Middleton succeeding to Mr, Corbet. 



